Tongkor Monastery
{{Short description|Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sichuan, China}}
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Tongkor or Tongkhor Monastery ({{bo|t=སྟོང་འཁོར་དགོན།|w=stong vkhor dgon}}), also known as Ganden Chokhorling or Dangar Gompa, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Zithang Town, Garzê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China.
History
The monastery was founded by Tongkor I, Dawa Gyaltsen, in the 15th century. It was previously the largest monastery in the county with some 500 monks about the beginning of the 20th century. This had dropped to about 70 monks at the time of the 2008 crackdown.A Great Mountain Burned by Fire (1008), p. 56.
"On April 3, 2008, troops fired upon protesters from Tongkor (Chinese: Donggu) monastery, 60 kilometers from Kardze town, killing at least 10 people. The protests were sparked by a raid on the monastery by police, the detention of a senior monk, and resentment over intensified Patriotic Education."A Great Mountain Burned by Fire: China's Crackdown in Tibet, p. 25. For details see the Chapter, "A Raid on Tongkor Monastery leads to Dissent and Deaths", pp. 55-59.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110705235910/http://72.32.136.41/files/documents/ICT_A_Great_Mountain_Burned_by_Fire.pdf]
Some accounts claim up to 14 people were killed.{{cite web |url=http://www.tibetinfonet.net/newsticker/entries?prefecture_id=40&province_id=20&location_id=173 |title=TibetInfoNet - Unrest in Tibet |access-date=2009-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515200651/http://www.tibetinfonet.net/newsticker/entries?prefecture_id=40&location_id=173&province_id=20 |archive-date=2008-05-15 }}
Footnotes
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References
- A Great Mountain Burned by Fire: China's Crackdown in Tibet. (March, 2009). A Report by the International Campaign for Tibet. Washington, B.C., Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels. Downloadable at: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110705235910/http://72.32.136.41/files/documents/ICT_A_Great_Mountain_Burned_by_Fire.pdf]
- Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn, Michael Tibet. (2005). 6th Edition. Lonely Planet. {{ISBN|1-74059-523-8}}.
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